Carnegie’s Lemon? The Birth of NPR

James T. Bennett ()
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James T. Bennett: George Mason University

Chapter Chapter 4 in The History and Politics of Public Radio, 2021, pp 39-55 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Chapter 3 examines the role of the Carnegie Commission on Educational Television, a blue-ribbon establishmentarian panel whose 1967 report was the template for the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967. The Carnegie Commission's mixture of high-flown rhetoric and confident assertion of the necessity of federal support won the day over a disorganized and not terribly passionate opposition. Radio wasn't even an afterthought to the Carnegie commissioners, but savvy and determined activists, centered around the University of Michigan's campus radio station, achieved a landmark and rather surreptitious triumph with the late appending of “and radio” to wherever “television” appeared in the Johnson administration's draft legislation. They were aided by a hastily compiled study titled The Hidden Medium: A Status Report on Educational Radio in the United States, which had concluded that government subsidy was essential to the maintenance, not to mention flourishing, of the genre.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-80019-2_4

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